Glossary

Audit Log	A log of events that have happened in the C-TL system. It could include information, error, debug or audit messages. Users are able to search for messages of a certain type, on a certain day and from a certain area of the system.
Booking	A quantity of a single Product Type on a single DU Type to be delivered from one location to another on particular date but not at a particular time. These records are usually created by the Auto Summary process. These records are displayed in the main view on the Bookings form.
Case	A Case of individual packets of a product e.g. a case of Cornflake packets.
CTM	This refers to the Carrier Trip Managment module within C-TL.
DU	Despatch Unit type e.g. Standard Roll Pallet.
Drivers Day	A schedule of work that a driver would undertake in a day including any rest periods and breaks.
Fuel Surcharge	An additional charge that may be applied to a Transport charge to reflect the increasing price of fuel.
MSMQ	Microsoft Message Queue – a method of interfacing with another system using Microsoft based technology.
ODBC	Open Database Connectivity – A method of communicating with an external database from a program outside of the database environment
Order	An instruction to deliver specific quantities of one or more Product Types on particular DU types from one location to another at a particular time.
Order Line	An order can be made up of different order lines (i.e. an order from one location to another can contain many lines such as 20 ambient pallets and 20 chilled pallets)
Payment	Monies paid by a cost centre to a third party such as a carrier.
Plan	A term used to describe the result from scheduling Orders onto Trips. The first set of Trips may be referred to as ‘Plan A’, with a subsequent, more accurate plan later in the day being referred to as ‘Plan B’.
Post Schedule	The period after Orders have been scheduled in the Scheduling Program and then returned to C-TL. Any subsequent manipulation of these Orders would be Post Schedule manipulation.
Pre Schedule	The period before Orders have been scheduled in the Scheduling Program and then returned to C-TL. Any manipulation of these Orders would be Pre Schedule manipulation.
Product Item	Another term for a case or SKU
Product Quantity	A quantity of a single Product Item or SKU to be delivered from one location to another on particular date but not at a particular time. These records are created by the inbound Bookings interface process. These records are displayed in the View Detail screen on the Bookings form.
Product Summary	Another term for Booking
Product Type	The category that a Product Item, Case or SKU falls in to, usually associated with temperature e.g. FROZEN, PERISHABLE, AMBIENT
Recalculate Distance and Times	An C-TL function that is applied to a trip. The function checks the properties of the trip to ensure that it meets the defined rules for a trip in respect of drive times and driver’s breaks.
Revenue	Monies received by a cost centre from a third party such as a customer.
RDC	Regional Distribution Centre.
RPE	Regular Pallet Equivalent. A means of comparing DU Type size, for example, a Standard Roll Pallet may equate to 1 RPE, a Large Board may equate to 2 RPE’s.
Schedule	The period to which a set of Orders and Trips will be assigned and scheduled. Usually, but not necessarily, a single day of the week so referred to as a Schedule Date that runs from 22:00 – 22:00 e.g. Schedule Date 11th July 2002 runs from 22:00 10-July-16 to 22:00 11-July-16.
Scheduled Order	An Order that has been scheduled onto a Trip by the scheduling process.
SKU	Stock Keeping Unit – another term for a Case
Sourcing Unit	A second entity that can be applied to a Lane, and all charges relating to that Lane will then be applied to the Sourcing Unit and not the Customer.
TI	Transport Instruction – another term for an Order.
Trip	A routed Truck Load of goods. For example, a trip that begins at Depot 1 where an Order is loaded, then travels to Store 1 where the Order is unloaded. Typically the trip would then return to Depot 1 to terminate the trip.
Trip Manipulation	The manipulation of Scheduled Trips, whether it be to add a Carrier or to completely recalculate times on the Trip.
Trip Stop	Stops within a trip at which specific activities would take place such as the loading or unloading of goods
Unscheduled Order	An Order that is yet to be scheduled onto a Trip by the scheduling process.
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